Workshop: Challenges in the Responsible Use of AI

Date and time: Tuesday 12 May 2026, 08:30-14:00
Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus
Directions: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/

The workshop “Challenges in the Responsible Use of AI” addresses key challenges in developing, deploying, and overseeing AI systems in a responsible and trustworthy manner. It focuses on how to enable responsible AI development and maintenance across the AI lifecycle, navigate evolving legal and regulatory requirements such as the GDPR and the EU AI Act, and establish standards and best practices grounded in ethical principles.

Bringing together industry experts and researchers affiliated with the Digital Futures center, the workshop aims to foster the exchange of perspectives, methods, and practical experiences from different domains. Through interdisciplinary discussions, participants will identify shared challenges, explore complementary approaches, and lay the foundation for a network that supports future collaboration and joint initiatives in responsible AI.

Registration

• Attendance is free of charge, but you need to register by 7 May, 12:00.

Confirmed speakers

• Talks
  • Viveka Bonde, Lawyer & Partner at Bonde Advokater AB
    Talk: Artificial Intelligence – incorporating sociotechnical dimensions in standards development 
    Viveka Bonde is a specialist in business and commercial law, with a strong focus on digitisation—particularly artificial intelligence, life sciences, and data protection. She supports clients across their entire value chain, providing legal guidance from development and implementation through to compliance and governance. Viveka is actively engaged in international standardisation work and serves as a project editor within ISO in the field of AI and ethics. In Sweden, she chairs Technical Committee 421 (Artificial Intelligence) at the Swedish Institute for Standards (SIS).
    
  • Hans Hedin, Swedish Post- & Telecom Authority (PTS)
    Talk: Innovation Support in the EU AI Act- Regulatory Sandboxes as a Tool for Faster & More Competitive AI Systems Development for SMEs 
    Hans Hedin works in the team focusing on PTS future responsibilities for the EU AI Act. He is focusing on innovation support in the form of regulatory sandboxes with the purpose of helping organizations to launch AI systems compliant with the AI act. Hans represents Sweden in the EU AI Board Expert Group Regulatory Sandboxes and is chairing the Workstream AI Incident Reporting in the European Working Group of Competent Authorities on AI. Prior to joining PTS, between 2019-2022, Hans participated in an AI systems development project “UAS/Drone based Biometric Detection of Missing Persons in Difficult Terrain” lead by the University of the West of Scotland. Hans holds a MSc in International Business Management, Economics and Languages from Lund university and a software development degree from Mid-Sweden university.
    
  • Dr. Rafia Inam, Senior Research Manager -Trustworthy AI, Adjunct Professor at KTH
    Talk: Building Trust in Telecom: Roles, Challenges, and Opportunities
    Rafia Inam is a Senior Research Manager at Ericsson Research in Trustworthy AI and Adjunct Professor at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. She has conducted research for Ericsson for the past eleven years on 5G for industries, network slices, and network management; and AI for automation. She specializes in trustworthy AI, Explainable AI, Ai regulation, risk assessment and mitigations using AI methods, and safety for cyber-physical systems for telecom and CPS. She is also contributing to trustworthy AI based standardization specially to European standards in CEN/CLC based on EU AI Act. Rafia received her PhD in predictable real-time embedded software from Mälardalen University in 2014. She has co-authored 55+ refereed scientific publications and 60+ patent families, and 2 best paper awards. She won Ericsson Top Performance Competition 2021 on her work on AI for 5G network slice assurance and was awarded multiple Ericsson Key Impact Awards. Link to Rafia’s homepage.
    
  • Susanne Stenberg – Senior researcher at RISE
    Talk: Reliable AI – industrial implications of the CE-mark
    Susanne Stenberg has worked with regulatory development in practice at various arenas, including standardisation and operating policy labs. She is the Policy Expert of Trustworthy AI at the AI Factory MIMER, a senior researcher at RISE (LLM) and the RISE Center for Applied AI, a guest lecturer at KTH and is engaged as a legal advisor on AI Regulation and Innovation, as well as on EU regulatory sandboxes and real world testing. Her talk will spark a discussion on what’s needed in terms of testing and certification from an industrial perspective.
    
• Short talks
  • Mauricio Soto, PhD – Program Manager AI at Transformer R&D Hitachi
    Talk: Creating standards and best practices at organisational and technical levels
    PhD. Mauricio Soto is Program Manager for Artificial Intelligence at Hitachi Energy, leading global AI initiatives in industrial research, development, and advanced analytics. With extensive experience driving innovation across large-scale technology programs, he specializes in applying artificial intelligence to complex engineering and energy systems challenges. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and serves as a CIGRE Work Group Representative. Recognized by the U.S. Government as an “Individual with Exceptional Ability in the National Interest,” he has authored 15+ publications, holds 10 patents, serves on seven international program committees, and is a frequent keynote speaker and multilingual leader.
    
  • Emma Stavrou – Director Software Engineering Xylem
    Talk: Challenges and Opportunities for Xylem in Responsible Use of AI
    Emma Stavrou is the Director of Product Development for Digital Services in Water Infrastructure at Xylem, where she also serves as the AI Champion for the division. With a master’s degree in Technical Physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, specializing in Computer Science, Emma brings over 25 years of experience in software development. Her work focuses on harnessing digital innovation and artificial intelligence to transform how water is managed globally. Passionate about sustainable technology and impactful solutions, Emma is dedicated to driving progress in the water sector through collaboration, creativity, and purpose-driven leadership.
    
  • Dr. Anna Guimarães – Postdoc at KTH
    Talk: Interpreting legal requirements for fairness in AI development
    Anna Guimarães is an industrial postdoc at KTH, working on the Digital Futures project “Towards Trustworthy AI Deployment” in collaboration with Scania and Stockholm University. This project tackles challenges in developing trustworthy AI systems in accordance with recent legal demands on fairness, privacy, and transparency within the EU AI Act and related governance processes. Anna received her PhD from Saarland University and conducted her research at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, with a focus on crossdisciplinary applications of computer science techniques to behavioral and social sciences, and now to governance and law.
    Link to project: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/project/toward-trustworthy-ai-deployment-bridging-regulatory-compliance-and-technological-innovation/

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Program

08:30 – 08:55 Coffee and registration

08:55 – 09:00 Welcome 

09:00 – 10:45 Session 1

• Talks:
  • Viveka Bonde: Artificial Intelligence – incorporating sociotechnical dimensions in standards development
  • Hans Hedin (PTS): Innovation Support in the EU AI Act- Regulatory Sandboxes as a Tool for Faster & More Competitive AI Systems Development for SMEs 

• Short talks:
  • Mauricio Soto (Hitachi): Creating standards and best practices at organisational and technical levels
  • Emma Stavrou (Xylem), Challenges and Opportunities for Xylem in Responsible Use of AI 
  • Anna Guimarães (KTH): Interpreting legal requirements for fairness in AI development

10:45 – 11:05 Coffee Break

11:05 – 12:50 Session 2

• Talks:
  • Rafia Inam: Building Trust in Telecom: Roles, Challenges, and Opportunities
  • Susanne Stenberg (RISE): Reliable AI – industrial implications of the CE-mark

• Group discussion:
  • Work group discussions on standardization, best practices in industry, and supporting regulatory frameworks.

12:50 – 13:00 – Closing

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch at Syster & Bror

End of Day

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Event organizers

• Tobias Oechtering, Professor, KTH, oech@kth.se
• Rami Mochaourab, Strategy manager, AI Enablement, Scania, rami.mochaourab@scania.com
• Anna De Carvalho Guimarães, Postdoc, KTH, andcg@kth.se
• Stanley Joel Greenstein, Associate Professor, Stockholm University, stanley.greenstein@juridicum.su.se